They found that contemporary plant material growing in the southern Levant shows an average offset in radiocarbon age of about 19 years compared the current Northern Hemisphere standard calibration curve.

is hardly news. In fact, C14 dates are generally given with a +/- that exceeds 20 years.

These sample from Tel es-Safi (Gath) indicate a general +/- of 45 years. Close enough.

Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

Nonsense. I saw the Holy Grail in Valencia Canthedral two weeks ago. It was perfectly fine. Made of agate from Alexandria originally.Asked friend to swipe it so we could rule the world, but he declined pointing to the guards, wuss.

Just to be clear the Holy Grail does not exist, Jesus probably did not exist (I think there could have been 2 whose stories have been conflated), the miracles did not happen, virgins do not give birth, dead men do not hop up and down after execution. Americans (Texans) and Iranians must know this better than almost anyone else.

Now you've done it. KB doesn't like to hear that his fairy tales are fairy tales.

Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

The reason for the post was to show that the cornerstone of the dating procedure, the idea that cosmic radiation is a constant, is not true.

The exposure is not a constant,It is a variable.A huge one.

This opens up all the “proven by RC” dates to re-examination.

We simply cannot accept an RC lab’s results as the end of all discussion anymore.

The amount of radiocarbon in the atmosphere varies, as mentioned; however, RC dating is simply a close proximate for anything during the samples' first half-life (which is given as 5,700 +/- 40 years), or back to about 3,700bce

Then there is another half-life milestone at about 9,400bce, and then we get to 1/8th of the orginal carbon in any sample dated to circa 15,000bce. For me, anything dated about 20,000bce or earlier is suspect, due to the opporunity for contamination upon collection.

To paraphrase Captain Hector Barbossa on the issue of radiocarbon dating, "It's more like a guideline than a rule."

Hell. 37% of the rest of the morons out there think that Trump didn't collude with the Russians!

Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

Again, the purpose of the post was to show that RCs weakness is getting some exposure.Eureka Alert is admittedly aimed at a science-oriented audience.But the audience goes far beyond archaeology. So, in my view, the further exposure, to a critical thinking audience, that the Emperor Has no Clothes the better.

I have no personal problem with RC dating.Used correctly, it is great.But what I have a problem with is it’s use as an "unquestionable" result.There is no such thing.It is just another tool in the toolbox.